An eccentric and artist, Arnold Henry Savage Landor won his way into the late 19th-century courts of east Asia by painting royal portraits. He traveled through India with two Persian cats, surveyed in ...

With this plan foiled by needing space for Lincoln's big old head, Borglum intended instead to place a grand room within the ...

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Greece, fifth century b.c. To accommodate the sculpture, Phidias raised the height of the cella. He also installed a large rectangular pool filled with olive oil in front of the statue. Since the ...

From Niagara Falls to the Redwood Forests, state parks preserve many of the nation’s iconic landscapes and historic treasures ...

The Statue of Liberty in New York City, New York is one of the world's most iconic landmarks and most popular tourist attractions, but over a hundred years ago, it actually used to be a lighthouse.

Take a rare look inside Sideshow Collectibles’ secret campus from the spaceship digital studio to the BTS operations of each creative department ...

It kind of snuck up on us—and we can perhaps be excused for that, because there has been so much going on these past few years—but as New Year’s Eve makes the turn to 2026 at midnight Wednesday, it is ...

WILKES-BARRE — An historic clock, gifted to a Wilkes-Barre priest by America’s 26th president in 1912, has a new home in the city’s oldest surviving home. The Wilkes-Barré Preservation Society and ...

A much-loved statue of Queen Victoria is still covered in paint after a pre-Christmas vandal attack. The listed structure at the entrance to Endcliffe Park, off Hunter’s Bar roundabout, was splashed ...

The creation and excavation of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)'s Te Tokanga moai statue was never completed.(Supplied: Carl Philipp Lipo / Binghamton University) It is lying abandoned, unfinished and idle on ...

A briny breeze blows across the English Channel, throwing me off balance as we traverse the expansive lawn at the American Cemetery and Memorial in Normandy, France. A memorial that contains the ...